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Structural Mechanics Module

Structural Mechanics Module

Perform Mechanical Analyses with the Structural Mechanics Module

Eigenfrequency analysis of a conrod showing the torsion angle along the conrod at the lowest eigenfrequency.

Static, Transient, and Frequency-Domain Structural Analysis

The Structural Mechanics Module is dedicated to the analysis of mechanical structures that are subject to static or dynamic loads. You can use this software for a wide range of analysis types, including stationary, transient, eigenmode/modal, parametric, quasi-static, frequency-response, buckling, and prestressed analyses.

Add-on Products Augment and Supplement Your Structural Analyses

The Structural Mechanics Module provides user interfaces for analyses in 2D, 2D axisymmetry, and 3D coordinate systems for solids, shells (3D), plates (2D), trusses (2D, 3D), membranes (2D axisymmetry, 3D), and beams (2D, 3D). These allow for large deformation analysis with geometrical nonlinearity, mechanical contact, thermal strain, piezoelectric materials, and fluid-structure interaction (FSI). If you are looking to perform nonlinear materials analysis, there are two add-on products available to you – the Nonlinear Structural Materials Module and the Geomechanics Module. For fatigue life evaluation, you can leverage the add-on Fatigue Module, while if you are looking to model flexible and rigid body dynamics, the add-on Multibody Dynamics Module is for you. The Rotordynamics Module provides specialized tools for analyzing vibrations in rotating machines. The Structural Mechanics Module also works in tandem with COMSOL Multiphysics and the other application-specific modules to couple structural analysis with a wide range of multiphysics phenomena, including the interaction of mechanical structures with electromagnetic fields, fluid flow, and chemical reactions.

Additional Images:

An eigenfrequency analysis of an impeller is achieved through performing the simulation on just one of the blades and using in-built periodic boundary conditions.

Transient structural analysis of a damper made from a viscoelastic material.

Contact between the ball bearings, cage, and large deformation on the rubber seal of a constant velocity (CV) joint. Model courtesy of Fabio Gatelli, Metelli S.p.A., Cologne, Italy.

Study of a rotating blade shows how the combined effect from stress stiffening and spin softening affects the fundamental eigenfrequency

Material Models

The constitutive models of the Structural Mechanics Module include linear elastic and viscoelastic material models, as well as orthotropic materials and materials with damping. The included set of material models can be expanded by adding the Nonlinear Structural Materials Module and Geomechanics Module, which allow for the analysis of large strain plastic deformation, hyperelastic materials, plasticity, creep, viscoplasticity, rocks, concrete, and soil. There is great flexibility in entering user-defined materials, which is where the equation-friendly user interfaces of COMSOL software come into play. For a large number of cases, the traditional user-subroutine approach can be replaced by just entering the constitutive equations directly into the user interface as mathematical expressions in field variables, stress and strain invariants, and derived quantities. For example, Young's modulus does not have to be a constant, but can be a function of any field variable and its derivatives. Material properties can vary in space or time, or be described using complex valued expressions.

Loads, Constraints, and Specialized High-Performance Modeling Tools

A great variety of loads and constraints are available to you. These include total force, pressure loads, follower loads, springs and dampers, added mass, prescribed displacement, velocity, and acceleration. For modeling thin elastic parts, you may use the special Thin Elastic Layer interface. Furthermore, specialized Rigid Domain and Rigid Boundary conditions are available for mixing rigid and flexible structures with more capabilities offered by the Multibody Dynamics Module. When modeling a smaller structure embedded in, or situated on top of, a large substrate of elastic material, a designated Infinite Element domain property is available to you. This simulates the absorption of stress that decays slowly, and allows for a truncated smaller domain to be simulated without loss of accuracy, while allowing for highly efficient simulations of the larger structure.

Solid Mechanics

The Solid Mechanics interfaces of the Structural Mechanics Module define the quantities and features for stress analysis and general linear and nonlinear solid mechanics, solving for the displacements. Linear Elastic Material is the default material model. Other material models are hyperelasticity (requires the Nonlinear Structural Materials Module) and linear viscoelastic material models. In addition, the elastic material model can be extended with thermal expansion, damping, and initial stress and strain features. General inelastic strains can easily be defined by entering them as additional initial strain contributions and can even be functions of any other physics fields spanning electromagnetics to fluid flow. The description of elastic materials in the module includes isotropic, orthotropic, and fully anisotropic materials. Each material coefficient can be described by a constant, variables, look-up tables, and composite and nonlinear expressions that can vary in space and time. COMSOL Multiphysics has the ability to interpret any and all expressions, which allows you to stay within the COMSOL Desktop® environment for advanced modeling tasks, without resorting to programming.

Large Deformations and Mechanical Contact

The Structural Mechanics Module enables you to model large deformation with geometric nonlinearity and follower loads. Loads can be distributed and may also depend on other physics, such as electromagnetic or fluid flow forces. Mechanical contact is of course available and is multiphysics enabled. You can, for example, allow for heat flux (requires the Heat Transfer Module) or electric currents (requires the AC/DC Module) across boundaries that are in contact, and make use of contact stresses to simulate the extent of current or heat transfer.

Shells, Plates, and Membranes

Shells, based on the Mindlin-Reissner formulation, are available for the structural analysis of thin-walled structures, where transverse shear deformations are accounted for so that you can simulate thick shells as well. It is also possible to prescribe an offset in the direction normal to a selected surface. The Shell interface also includes other features such as damping, thermal expansion, and initial stresses and strains. The preset studies available are the same as for the Solid Mechanics interface. Similar to the Shell interface, the Plate interface acts in a single plane, but usually only with out-of-plane loads.

The Membrane interface models curved plane stress elements in 3D, which have the possibility to deform both in the in-plane and out-of-plane directions. The difference between a shell and a membrane is that the membrane does not have any bending stiffness. This interface is suited for modeling structures like thin films and fabric.

Vibrations, Acoustics, and Elastic Waves

A range of capabilities are available for vibration analysis with optional couplings to acoustics together with the Acoustics Module. When combining the Structural Mechanics Module and the Acoustics Module, you are granted access to a dedicated tool for acoustic-shell interactions. The Acoustics Module has additional physics interfaces for solid-acoustic and piezo-acoustic interactions. For elastic waves propagating in a material, the Structural Mechanics Module offers low-reflecting boundaries and perfectly matched layers where outgoing elastic waves are simulated as being absorbed. This functionality makes it easy to model waves propagating outwards from a vibrating structure in relatively large or infinite media.

Fatigue Evaluation

By adding the Fatigue Module to your structural mechanics analyses, you can perform structural fatigue life computations. Both high-cycle and low-cycle fatigue methods, and cumulative damage analysis are available. The Fatigue Module is tightly integrated with the Structural Mechanics Module and you remain in the COMSOL Desktop® environment for the structural mechanics and for fatigue computations. The Fatigue Module can be used together with the Solid Mechanics, Shell, Plate, and Multibody Dynamics interfaces as well as for the physics interfaces that simulate thermal stresses, joule heating together with thermal expansion, and piezoelectric devices.

Beams and Trusses

Beam elements in the Structural Mechanics Module are intended for the analysis of slender structures (beams) that can be fully described by cross section properties, such as areas and moments of inertia. They simulate frame structures, both planar and in 3D, and can be coupled with other element types, such as for analyzing reinforcements of solid and shell structures. The Beam interface includes a library for rectangular, box, circular, pipe, H-profile, U-profile, and T-profile beam sections. Additional features include damping, thermal expansion, and initial stresses and strains. A separate 2D physics interface, called Beam Cross Sections, can be used to evaluate cross section properties for arbitrary 2D cross sections to use as inputs in beam analyses.

The Truss interface can be used to model slender structures that can only sustain axial forces. Trusses allow specification of small strains as well as large deformation strains. Examples of truss structures are truss works with straight edges and cables exposed to gravity forces (sagging cables). Additional features include damping, thermal expansion, and initial stresses and strains.

Thermal Stress

While the Structural Mechanics Module works together with COMSOL Multiphysics, and can be integrated with other add-on modules to model many different multiphysics applications, it does include a number of tailor-made multiphysics interfaces. For instance, the Thermal Stress interface is similar to the Solid Mechanics interface with the addition of a thermal linear elastic material model. It can be used in combination with various Heat Transfer interfaces to couple the temperature field to a structure’s (material) expansion. A special Joule Heating and Thermal Expansion multiphysics interface combines Thermal Stress with Joule Heating and describes the conduction of electric current in a structure, the subsequent electric heating caused by the ohmic losses in the structure, and the thermal stresses induced by the temperature field.

CAD and Optimization

The CAD Import Module provides the ability to import a range of industry-standard CAD formats, including geometry clean-up and repair operations for preparing CAD models for meshing and analysis. The CAD Import Module also provides the well-known Parasolid® geometry kernel for more advanced solid operations than what is supported with the COMSOL native kernel. For mechanical simulation of electronics structures, the ECAD Import Module offers electronic layout import. When analyzing a mechanical part or assembly, it is vital to keep the CAD-native parametric model so that parameter studies and optimization can be performed without having to reconstruct model parameters. This is made possible by using the LiveLink™ products for CAD that are available for several leading CAD systems: SOLIDWORKS®, s, Inventor®, AutoCAD®, PTC® Creo® Parametric™, PTC® Pro/ENGINEER®, and Solid Edge®. These products offer simultaneous updates of geometry parameters in the CAD system and COMSOL, and allow for parametric sweeps and optimization over several different modeling parameters. By including the Optimization Module, automated optimization is possible for geometric dimensions, boundary loads, or material properties.

Piezoelectric Devices

The Piezoelectric Devices interface combines COMSOL's Solid Mechanics and Electrostatics modeling capabilities into a fully coupled tool for modeling piezoelectric materials. The piezoelectric coupling can be in stress-charge or strain-charge form with fully coupled frequency-sweep, eigenmode, and transient computations. All solid mechanics and electrostatics functionality is accessible through this physics interface, to model the surrounding linear elastic solids or air domains as well as dielectric layers, for example.

Fluid-Structure Interaction (FSI)

The Fluid-Structure Interaction (FSI) multiphysics interface combines fluid flow with solid mechanics to capture the interaction between the fluid and the solid structure. Solid Mechanics and Laminar Flow interfaces model the solid and the fluid, respectively. The FSI couplings appear on the boundaries between the fluid and the solid, and can include both fluid pressure and viscous forces, as well as momentum transfer from the solid to the fluid – bidirectional FSI. The method used for FSI is known as an arbitrary Lagrangian-Eulerian (ALE).

Structural Mechanics Module

Product Features

Acoustic-structure interaction1

Beams

Biomechanics

Bolt pre-tension analysis

Buckling and postbuckling

Contact analysis

Fatigue evaluation2

Fluid-structure interaction (FSI)

Geometric nonlinearity

Large deformation

Lubrication and elastohydrodynamics3

Membranes

Modal analysis

Multibody dynamics4

Nonlinear materials5

Piezoelectric devices

Poroelasticity6

Prestressed structures

Rotordynamics

Part Library with parametric geometry parts for U.S. and European bolts as well as standard and generic beams

Modeling Mechanical Applications in COMSOL Multiphysics

COMSOL Multiphysics® is your ideal software solution for modeling mechanical applications and simulating the multiple interacting physics affecting them. Structural mechanics, nonlinear material models, geomechanics, and assemblies are just some of the many mechanical applications you can model with the software.

Because the COMSOL software uses the industry standard finite element method (FEM), you are able to investigate the numerous physics phenomena affecting your model, such as electromechanics, acoustic-structure and fluid-structure interactions, thermal and electrical contact analysis, magnetostatics, and more.

Watch this video to learn how COMSOL Multiphysics can help you streamline the design process and optimize your mechanical designs.

COMSOL Multiphysics® is your ideal software solution for modeling mechanical applications and analyzing the multiple interacting physics affecting them. Structural mechanics, nonlinear material models, and geomechanics are just some of the many mechanical applications you can model with the software.

Predefined interfaces, packaged within the COMSOL software, enable you to investigate multiphysics phenomena, such as electromechanics, acoustic-structure and fluid-structure interactions, thermal and electrical contact analysis.

Watch this video to learn how COMSOL Multiphysics can help you streamline the design process and optimize your mechanical designs.

Structural Mechanics Module

Sonar Dome Vibration Analysis

Francesca Magionesi
INSEAN
Italy

There has been a recent move towards utilizing bulbous bows on ships to house different types of sonar systems, but it is not definite how much structural vibration might interfere with the functioning of a transducer array inside the sonar dome. INSEAN, the National Institute for Studies and Experiments of Naval Architecture in Italy, needed a ...

Carbon fiber composites are used extensively throughout the body of modern aircraft, such as the Boeing 787 Dreamliner, because of their exceptional strength and light weight. Expanded metal foil (EMF) is added to the composite structure layup as a protective measure to dissipate the extreme heat and current generated by a lightning strike. ...

JDR Cables designs-to-spec and manufactures subsea umbilical systems of cables and reelers for the oil and gas and renewable energy industries. In these designs, the harsh environments of deep water pressure, wind and waves, as well as the rough ocean floor must all be considered, along with the forces acting on cables from being pulled and ...

Cochlear Technology Centre Europe (CTCE) develops new technology for hearing implants. Their current work is with a new type of hearing implant, a Direct Acoustic Cochlear Implant called CodacsTM. This product imposes structural, pressure waves directly to the cochlea, stimulating it this way, as opposed to amplifying sound.
Using COMSOL ...

Simulation-based engineering is the key to shortening time to market for innovations. Intellectual Ventures, in Bellevue, WA, is reaping the benefits of using COMSOL Multiphysics to accelerate their workflow from design study to prototype, and then on to their customers as inventions through various partnerships and licensing programs. Projects ...

Knolls Atomic Power Laboratory (KAPL) is a research and development facility supporting the United States Naval Nuclear Propulsion Program. KAPL recently collaborated with Bettis Atomic Power Laboratory to test a supercritical carbon dioxide (S-CO2) Brayton power cycle system.
The system was designed to operate at high speed and high gas ...

Chip manufacturers have been adhering to Moore’s law, a law stating that the number of transistors that can be economically placed on an integrated circuit doubles every year, since 1965. As the number of transistors increases, however, the process of manufacturing integrated circuit, called photolithography, becomes more difficult. Each device ...

Built-in tire pressure sensors need to be able to withstand the wear and tear of working within a car’s tire rim. Their design needs to be optimized for both sensitivity and strength.
Schrader Electronics built a sensor that works accurately and lasts while operating on a moving tire's rim. They used the Structural Mechanics Module and CAD ...

Researching a New Fuel for the HFIR: Advancements at ORNL Require Multiphysics Simulation to Support Safety and Reliability

F. Curtis, J.D. Freels
Oak Ridge National Lab, TN, USA

In response to the increasing awareness of the risks associated with the proliferation of nuclear materials, the Global Threat Reduction initiative has called for research reactors currently using highly enriched uranium (HEU) fuel to be converted to low-enriched uranium (LEU) fuel. The High Flux Isotope Reactor (HFIR), located at Oak Ridge ...

With technological advancements accelerating so rapidly, more powerful computer chips are needed to meet the high demands of fast-growing industries. Lam Research Corporation manufactures semiconductor devices and equipment used to deposit, etch, and clean material layers laid onto wafers during semiconductor processing. With processes as precise ...

The design and testing of high-voltage cables for terrestrial and submarine applications is paramount to Prysmian's business model. A fundamental challenge in designing power transmission systems is optimizing the cables so that they can reliably deliver the required steady-state current while remaining at, or preferably below, the maximum ...

Actuation Technique for Miniature Robots Developed using Multiphysics Simulation

P. Lazarou, C. Rotinat
CEA LIST, France

Robotic devices for minimally invasive surgery procedures require flexible tools and careful actuation. But most robotic surgery devices are bulky, expensive, and physically draining for surgeons to operate for long periods of time. At the French Atomic and Alternative Energies Commission (CEA LIST), researchers are investigating miniature phase ...

Smart materials with magnetostrictive behavior are engineered and incorporated in high-precision devices by the designers and researchers at ETREMA Products, Inc. Terfenol-D, in particular, is a giant magnetostrictive material solely manufactured by ETREMA that exhibits the largest deformation of any alloy in response to an applied magnetic field ...

Researching a New Fuel for the HFIR: Advancements at ORNL Require Multiphysics Simulation to Support Safety and Reliability

Modeling of Complex Physics Speeds Chip Development

Simulation Software Brings Big Changes to Cable Industry

Actuation Technique for Miniature Robots Developed using Multiphysics Simulation

Making Smart Materials Smarter with Multiphysics Simulation

Sonar Dome Vibration Analysis

Francesca Magionesi
INSEAN
Italy

There has been a recent move towards utilizing bulbous bows on ships to house different types of sonar systems, but it is not definite how much structural vibration might interfere with the functioning of a transducer array inside the sonar dome. INSEAN, the National Institute for Studies and Experiments of Naval Architecture in Italy, needed a ...

Carbon fiber composites are used extensively throughout the body of modern aircraft, such as the Boeing 787 Dreamliner, because of their exceptional strength and light weight. Expanded metal foil (EMF) is added to the composite structure layup as a protective measure to dissipate the extreme heat and current generated by a lightning strike. ...

JDR Cables designs-to-spec and manufactures subsea umbilical systems of cables and reelers for the oil and gas and renewable energy industries. In these designs, the harsh environments of deep water pressure, wind and waves, as well as the rough ocean floor must all be considered, along with the forces acting on cables from being pulled and ...

Cochlear Technology Centre Europe (CTCE) develops new technology for hearing implants. Their current work is with a new type of hearing implant, a Direct Acoustic Cochlear Implant called CodacsTM. This product imposes structural, pressure waves directly to the cochlea, stimulating it this way, as opposed to amplifying sound.
Using COMSOL ...

Simulation-based engineering is the key to shortening time to market for innovations. Intellectual Ventures, in Bellevue, WA, is reaping the benefits of using COMSOL Multiphysics to accelerate their workflow from design study to prototype, and then on to their customers as inventions through various partnerships and licensing programs. Projects ...

Knolls Atomic Power Laboratory (KAPL) is a research and development facility supporting the United States Naval Nuclear Propulsion Program. KAPL recently collaborated with Bettis Atomic Power Laboratory to test a supercritical carbon dioxide (S-CO2) Brayton power cycle system.
The system was designed to operate at high speed and high gas ...

Chip manufacturers have been adhering to Moore’s law, a law stating that the number of transistors that can be economically placed on an integrated circuit doubles every year, since 1965. As the number of transistors increases, however, the process of manufacturing integrated circuit, called photolithography, becomes more difficult. Each device ...

Built-in tire pressure sensors need to be able to withstand the wear and tear of working within a car’s tire rim. Their design needs to be optimized for both sensitivity and strength.
Schrader Electronics built a sensor that works accurately and lasts while operating on a moving tire's rim. They used the Structural Mechanics Module and CAD ...

Researching a New Fuel for the HFIR: Advancements at ORNL Require Multiphysics Simulation to Support Safety and Reliability

F. Curtis, J.D. Freels
Oak Ridge National Lab, TN, USA

In response to the increasing awareness of the risks associated with the proliferation of nuclear materials, the Global Threat Reduction initiative has called for research reactors currently using highly enriched uranium (HEU) fuel to be converted to low-enriched uranium (LEU) fuel. The High Flux Isotope Reactor (HFIR), located at Oak Ridge ...

With technological advancements accelerating so rapidly, more powerful computer chips are needed to meet the high demands of fast-growing industries. Lam Research Corporation manufactures semiconductor devices and equipment used to deposit, etch, and clean material layers laid onto wafers during semiconductor processing. With processes as precise ...

The design and testing of high-voltage cables for terrestrial and submarine applications is paramount to Prysmian's business model. A fundamental challenge in designing power transmission systems is optimizing the cables so that they can reliably deliver the required steady-state current while remaining at, or preferably below, the maximum ...

Actuation Technique for Miniature Robots Developed using Multiphysics Simulation

P. Lazarou, C. Rotinat
CEA LIST, France

Robotic devices for minimally invasive surgery procedures require flexible tools and careful actuation. But most robotic surgery devices are bulky, expensive, and physically draining for surgeons to operate for long periods of time. At the French Atomic and Alternative Energies Commission (CEA LIST), researchers are investigating miniature phase ...

Smart materials with magnetostrictive behavior are engineered and incorporated in high-precision devices by the designers and researchers at ETREMA Products, Inc. Terfenol-D, in particular, is a giant magnetostrictive material solely manufactured by ETREMA that exhibits the largest deformation of any alloy in response to an applied magnetic field ...

Structural Mechanics Module

Heating Circuit

Small heating circuits find use in many applications. For example, in manufacturing processes, they heat up reactive fluids. The device in this tutorial example consists of an electrically resistive layer deposited on a glass plate. The layer results in Joule heating when a voltage is applied to the circuit, which results in a structural ...

The bracket models are used as an introduction to structural mechanics modeling with the Structural Mechanics Module.
The following features are introduced:
The fundamentals: static linear analysis
Parametric study
Including initial strain
Modeling thermal expansion
Adding a rigid connector
Adding spring conditions
Modeling with the Shell ...

This model refers to a portion of the vascular system of a young child - the upper part of the aorta artery. The blood vessels are embedded in a biological tissue (the cardiac muscle) and, during the flow of blood, pressure is applied to the internal surfaces producing deformation of the vessel walls.
The complete analysis consists of two ...

The thermal stress in a layered plate is studied in this example. A plate consisting of two layers, a coating and a substrate layer is stress and strain free at 800 degrees C. The temperature of the plate is reduced to 150 degrees C and thermal stresses are induced. A third layer, the carrier layer, is added and the thermal stresses in the ...

The model performs a static analysis on a piezoelectric actuator based on the movement of a cantilever beam, using the Piezoelectric Devices predefined multiphysics interface. Inspired by work done by V. Piefort and A. Benjeddou, it models a sandwich beam using the shear mode of the piezoelectric material to deflect the tip.

In massive forming processes like rolling or extrusion, metal alloys are deformed in a hot solid state with material flowing under ideally plastic conditions. Such processes can be simulated effectively using computational fluid dynamics, where the material is considered as a fluid with a very high viscosity that depends on velocity and ...

Consider an infinitely long steel cylinder resting on a flat aluminum foundation, where both structures are elastic. The cylinder is subjected to a point load along its top. The objective of this study is to find the contact pressure distribution and the length of contact between the foundation and the cylinder. An analytical solution exists, and ...

In a peristaltic pump, rotating rollers squeeze a flexible tube. As the rollers move along the tube, the fluid in the tube follows the motion. The main advantage of the peristaltic pump is that no seals, valves or other internal parts ever touch the fluid. Due to their cleanliness, peristaltic pumps have found many applications in the ...

This model demonstrates the ability to simulate Multibody Dynamics in COMSOL. It comprises a multilink mechanism that is used in an antique automobile as a gearshift lever. It was created out of curiosity to find out how large forces are on the individual components. The model uses flexible parts, i.e. the Structural Mechanics Module was used ...

The Beam Section Calculator app allows you to evaluate cross section data for a wide range of American and European standard beams. Given a set of forces and moments acting on the section, you can also compute a detailed stress distribution.
Calculated cross section data can also easily be extracted for use as input data for beam analyses in ...

Small heating circuits find use in many applications. For example, in manufacturing processes, they heat up reactive fluids. The device in this tutorial example consists of an electrically resistive layer deposited on a glass plate. The layer results in Joule heating when a voltage is applied to the circuit, which results in a structural ...

The bracket models are used as an introduction to structural mechanics modeling with the Structural Mechanics Module.
The following features are introduced:
The fundamentals: static linear analysis
Parametric study
Including initial strain
Modeling thermal expansion
Adding a rigid connector
Adding spring conditions
Modeling with the Shell ...

This model refers to a portion of the vascular system of a young child - the upper part of the aorta artery. The blood vessels are embedded in a biological tissue (the cardiac muscle) and, during the flow of blood, pressure is applied to the internal surfaces producing deformation of the vessel walls.
The complete analysis consists of two ...

The thermal stress in a layered plate is studied in this example. A plate consisting of two layers, a coating and a substrate layer is stress and strain free at 800 degrees C. The temperature of the plate is reduced to 150 degrees C and thermal stresses are induced. A third layer, the carrier layer, is added and the thermal stresses in the ...

The model performs a static analysis on a piezoelectric actuator based on the movement of a cantilever beam, using the Piezoelectric Devices predefined multiphysics interface. Inspired by work done by V. Piefort and A. Benjeddou, it models a sandwich beam using the shear mode of the piezoelectric material to deflect the tip.

In massive forming processes like rolling or extrusion, metal alloys are deformed in a hot solid state with material flowing under ideally plastic conditions. Such processes can be simulated effectively using computational fluid dynamics, where the material is considered as a fluid with a very high viscosity that depends on velocity and ...

Consider an infinitely long steel cylinder resting on a flat aluminum foundation, where both structures are elastic. The cylinder is subjected to a point load along its top. The objective of this study is to find the contact pressure distribution and the length of contact between the foundation and the cylinder. An analytical solution exists, and ...

In a peristaltic pump, rotating rollers squeeze a flexible tube. As the rollers move along the tube, the fluid in the tube follows the motion. The main advantage of the peristaltic pump is that no seals, valves or other internal parts ever touch the fluid. Due to their cleanliness, peristaltic pumps have found many applications in the ...

This model demonstrates the ability to simulate Multibody Dynamics in COMSOL. It comprises a multilink mechanism that is used in an antique automobile as a gearshift lever. It was created out of curiosity to find out how large forces are on the individual components. The model uses flexible parts, i.e. the Structural Mechanics Module was used ...

The Beam Section Calculator app allows you to evaluate cross section data for a wide range of American and European standard beams. Given a set of forces and moments acting on the section, you can also compute a detailed stress distribution.
Calculated cross section data can also easily be extracted for use as input data for beam analyses in ...

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